> The only OS that I know of which is pretty much guaranteed to work when using a drive > from a different machine is OS X. With OS X all you have to do is delete the cache > that contains the drivers that load on startup (before switching drives)
You can do the same thing with Windows. It's just not that straight forward. It takes a good bit of googling to find a decent tutorial, but there are programs that take care of it for you. Acronis True Image has a function to "restore to different hardware", for example.
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